Relative Deprivation, Personal Income Satisfaction, and Average Well-Being under Different Income Distributions

Christian Seidl, Stefan Traub () and Andrea Morone

No RP2005-04, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper uses the data gained from an income categorization experiment for five shapes of income distributions to investigate background context effects, relative deprivation, range-frequency theory to explain background context effects, individual income satisfaction versus aggregate well-being, and the dual patterns of income categorization and limen setting. It is shown that background context effects exist and are reflected in relative deprivation. Not all precepts of range-frequency theory can be evidenced.

Keywords: Income distribution; Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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